Convert To The Catholic Church From Islam
The following is a list of notable individuals who converted to Catholicism from Islam (including to Eastern Catholic Churches). Converts A * Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil, Moroccan Roman Catholic priest and a Catholic convert from Islam. * Basuki Abdullah (1915–1993), Indonesian painter * Leo Africanus (c. 1494–c. 1554?), Berber Andalusi Moorish diplomat and author who was converted to Christianity following his capture * Bernard of Alzira (1135–1181), Andalusian prince and diplomat * Juan Andrés, Spanish Islamic scholar who converted to Catholicism and wrote a well known polemical work against Islam, the ''Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán'' * Juliana Awada (born 1974), Lebanese-Argentine businesswoman and First Lady of Argentina B * Josephine Bakhita (ca. 1869–1947), Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister and Roman Catholic saint from Darfur, Sudan. She was forcibly converted to Islam. On 9 January 1890 Bakhita was ...
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Conversion To Christianity
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person to Christianity. Different Christian denominations may perform various different kinds of rituals or ceremonies initiation into their community of believers. The most commonly accepted ritual of conversion in Christianity is through baptism, but this is not universally accepted among them all. A period of instruction and study almost always ensues before a person is formally converted into Christianity and becomes a church member, but the length of this period varies, sometimes as short as a few weeks and possibly less, and other times, up to as long as a year or possibly more. Most mainline Christian denominations will accept conversion into other denominations as valid, so long as a baptism with water in the name of the Trinity took place, but some may accept a simple profession of faith in Jesus as Lord as being all that was needed for true conversion. Other Christians may not accept ...
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